Synopsis
The Resilience Game Plan: The Teen Playbook for Developing Cognitive, Communication, and Mindfulness Skills Training provides a 15-week curriculum for high schools (advisory, health, or home room classes) to help students instill resiliency and learn tools to provide their brains a barrier of protection as they encounter difficulties throughout their lifetime. By implementing the intervention techniques in The Resilience Game Plan, school and medical professionals are providing teenagers an opportunity to improve their short- and long-term mental and physical health outcomes.
About the Authors
Colleen Carter Ster recently earned her Master of Liberal Arts from Harvard University in Psychology out of concern for the self-harm cases among youth in the United States. Ster created The Resilience Game Plan: The Teen Playbook for Developing Cognitive, Communication, and Mindfulness Skills to provide a curriculum for middle and high schools to help adolescents be more resilient by giving them the tools to understand how the brain works and deal with difficult life situations.In 2008, Ster became Founder/CEO/President of a children's publishing business called Reflections Publishing. Prior to starting Reflections Publishing, she served as Executive Vice President for The Electronic Bookshelf (EBS) for five years. During her time at EBS, she created curriculum questions for K-12th grade students and continuing education credit materials for the EBS Reading Power Seminars. Ster taught and conducted training sessions to administrators, librarians and teachers around the country for many years. EBS was later sold to Scholastic, Inc. and Ster became the Marketing Director for Scholastic Reading Counts! in the Learning Ventures Division in New York, New York. During Ster's years traveling around the country conducting training sessions for EBS, she listened to what type of books educators were looking to purchase for their students. Time and again the answer was to find books to help students when they were struggling with difficult life scenarios. Hence the creation of what ALA Booklist tauts "A unique series by children, for children."-about the Reflections Publishing book series, "Kids Helping Kids Through Books". Now, with a newly procured Harvard University degree in hand, with a focus on taking neuroscience, neurobiology, self-harm, and cognitive behavior therapy classes, Ster is determined to try to prevent self-harm cases among youth around the world. Including the Reflections Publishing Communication Study, which has been tested and tweaked with K-12th students since 2008, Ster wants to get The Resilience Game Plan, a beneficial intervention tool, into the hands of every student-providing adolescents their best chance to obtain a strong, long-term developmental outcome.
Alexandra Sedlovskaya is Associate Director at the C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard Business School. Alexandra designs and executes research pertaining to management education and pedagogies that support participant-centered learning. Project areas include case teaching, curricular innovations, program assessment, gender and diversity, student evaluations of teaching, and teaching effectiveness.Alexandra obtained her M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Psychology from Yale University in 2011 and extended her research training as a postdoctoral associate at the Yale School of Management. As a doctoral student, Alexandra has been awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Grant to conduct research on diversity and social stigma within organizations. Alexandra earned her B.A. at Wesleyan University, graduating as a valedictorian in 2004..
Cheryl James-Ward, Ed.D.Cheryl James-Ward has been a Superintendent of Schools, Schools CEO, Director of Academics and Innovation, elementary school principal, vice principal, math teacher and NASA software engineer.
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